The country is in the grip of a teenage crime wave.

青少年犯罪的激增让该国陷入困境。

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The country was in the grip of (an) economic depression.

当时国家处于经济萧条期。

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But for now, she is in the grip of a blind, unfocused anger.

但是现在，她正被一股盲目的无目标的怒气控制着。

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The local economy is ruled by agriculture, but the soil is infertile and much of the northeast is in the grip of a drought.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

But she was helpless in the viselike grip of the powerful man."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"They believe in me." TB has a firm grip on the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Britain as a whole is not in the grip of some general 'moral decline'.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, it seems, are caught in the grip of the On-Off relationship.

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Helpless in the grip of their own self-delusion, the slave owners undermined their own cause.

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